We performed a comparison between Broadcom Clarity and Smartsheet based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Portfolio Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The new UX is great because it has helped remove some of those barriers, so that people who are not classically trained project managers can easily get up to speed in using the tool without having to learn a whole other tool set. It's very intuitive, and very collaborative, and very easy to adapt to their existing work styles."
"Demand, Resource, Project Portfolio Management, for my business consulting services, PMO services to other clients."
"It is easier to use than most other products that are out there."
"Broadcom Clarity PPM's most valuable feature is the plenty of modules, such as portfolio, project, resource, and time."
"Within the SaaS environment (since CA is supporting it), it has been extremely stable and reliable."
"I love the fact that it is very flexible. I am the lead engineer with enhancements, development, developing new portlets, anything that has to be added on, and integrating data, such as ETL processing."
"Being able to look at the data across team members, resources, projects and coming up with the algorithms and resources."
"This product is good for resource management and project management. I have managed detailed schedules with great success."
"What I found most valuable in Smartsheet is its project customization feature. It's a great solution because you can add in your own WBS. You can see it in Jira style, Kanban, and you can even do Agile and Waterfall. Another feature that's valuable in the solution is when you have those connections, you have that API, you have a sandbox, and you can make a solution, it's a tremendous product because you can pull data."
"The ability to build a quick dashboard and give management insight into the progress of the project itself is probably one of the most beneficial pieces."
"The solution is scalable."
"The fact that you can have different access groups is definitely a pro for Smartsheet. It also has the ability to integrate with a lot of tools."
"The tool reduces manual labour and it is user-friendly."
"This solution provides easy collaboration and allows non-building users to use the system without requiring a license."
"Smartsheet is a really good tool for collaboration."
"The most valuable feature of Smartsheet is it can be highly customized."
"A little bit better financial management. Right now it is more accountant-related, the financial management - of course, it's finance, it has to be financial. But it should be a little bit easier for project managers."
"Needs Gantt to MS Project link."
"It would be good for them to work on the user interface to make it more interactive."
"One of the limitations would be mapping our current agile processes in the same tool set without obviously integrating to a different type of tool set within the same portfolio."
"One of the things that have always been a bit painful is the integration with reporting utilities. The current integration is with Jaspersoft, and there are a number of difficulties with that. If you're using out-of-the-box fields and everything, it is a bit slow and clunky. It has a drag-and-drop interface for the users. On the backend side, there is a report designer. They haven't given or allowed me any training on it yet. So, it has been a bit limited in its features. On one of the earlier report utilities, they had one called Actuate, which had VBA as its base programming language, and you could do quite dynamic things behind the scenes, whereas the Jaspersoft interface seems rather locked. So, you're limited in your options. Being a programmer, you like to have room to be able to invent and create rather than just being limited to a few selection boxes."
"Their online documentation is okay. It is not great. It is hard to get to some of the answers to the things that we may be running into, such as use cases that we are trying to fix. So, frequently we have to put in tickets."
"Reporting is not good as they keep on changing reporting environment."
"In the timesheet UX, you can't do things like splitting time, managing overtime versus regular time, very easily. That would be helpful."
"Maybe the solution could be a little bit more flexible."
"The downside of Smartsheet is that there are some security concerns. We were able to restrict people from sharing sheets with anyone who was not in our domain, but it could be easier. We also found it hard to restrict certain user groups from adding attachments to sheets."
"They provide a limited number of sheets which is not enough."
"You were forced to create a new tab rather than add another sheet."
"Smartsheet could be improved to be a ticketing system. It would be nice to have a system to do everything."
"The main challenge with Smartsheet is that when you start putting components on the Smartsheet dashboard, they don't know about each other. So, if I filter something in one widget, or if I click on a region or a project ID, the other widget or component and the visualization that's on that dashboard don't change. It doesn't know about the other component."
"They should improve the solution's integration with API."
"The long-term timelines could be improved, especially the visuals on the projection Gantt chart."
Broadcom Clarity is ranked 2nd in Project Portfolio Management with 11 reviews while Smartsheet is ranked 4th in Project Portfolio Management with 26 reviews. Broadcom Clarity is rated 8.0, while Smartsheet is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Broadcom Clarity writes "Good tracking and custom reports with helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Smartsheet writes "Has customization, data pulling, and cross-functional global communication features; it's a secure solution". Broadcom Clarity is most compared with Microsoft Project, Jira, Planview Portfolios, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management and monday.com, whereas Smartsheet is most compared with Microsoft Project, Spreadsheet.com, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Adobe Workfront and Planisware. See our Broadcom Clarity vs. Smartsheet report.
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